Re: 21.2.19 crash in ldap on Solaris 2.7

Raymond> The manpage for ldap_open gives an example for the elements of struct Raymond> ldap, but I can't find that in any include file. Oscar> I second that. In its current state, Sun's LDAP Oscar> implementation seems to be fairly unusable : manpages and Oscar> header files are inconsistent and ldap.h doesn't provide Oscar> neither a definition of struct ldap nor a prototype for Oscar> ldap_set_option. Raymond> I took a look at ldap.h in the UMICH version. The struct ldap looks Raymond> very, very much like the example code in Sun's ldap_open manpage. Raymond> Maybe it's the same. :-) It's certainly the same (most LDAP implementations derive from the UMich distribution, Sun's is no exception, see the copyright statement at the top of ldap.h) but we cannot make any assumptions based on this. Raymond> Maybe we should just not do auto-detect of ldap on Solaris 2.7, and Raymond> add yet another option to configure to use ldap explicitly. This could be a solution. The switch --with-ldap already exists. If I don't find a solution to identify precisely Sun's implementation I think I will disable auto-detection for Solaris 2.7 Raymond> Or punt and just put it in the Problems file and tell people to get Raymond> the some other ldap library. Raymond> (BTW, has anyone successfully used Netscape's implementation? I tried Raymond> it once, didn't get it to work, and used the UMICH version, which, Raymond> obviously, works.) I did some builds and a few searches with it. It's supposed to work, problems with it should be reported. Oscar